How Your Reality Is Being Shifted And Distorted

I want to start this discussion by painting a picture for you. Imagine for a moment that you are living your life working, hitting the gym, pursuing goals, going out to dinner with family, and perhaps looking forward to driving into the city for a night out with friends. 

Maybe you were planning to take a trip and travel overseas. Perhaps you were thinking of taking a cruise down to Mexico or the Caribbean. You have been basically planning your life by grabbing freedom by the horns to break free of the chains of your desktop or laptop inside the Metaverse.

In very simple terms you just want to get out into the real world and enjoy real life experiences. 

Now for the next part I want you to focus on what I described and really absorb it because everything I just said sounds pretty normal, right? The answer is Yes. It was completely normal about two years ago, but the NEW reality is that everything I just described to you has become more and more abnormal over time. 

Now without stating the obvious, the real question I want to pose to you is why was all of this ALLOWED to be changed? 

The Overton Window Shift

So now I want you to also imagine going back in time two years ago and you’re living out your day to day life as I’ve explained in the opening of this article. Now with that in mind I want you to imagine that I come to you in person and tell you that in a very short period of time a series of events are going to take place that will completely transform your life and society as you know it.  

What I would tell you is that within about two years you’re going to go from enjoying your day to day life like you are to being fast tracked at looking at a global totalitarian situation. I would highlight that you would see this with every country falling under authoritarian rule over vaccine passports, warfare, famine, record high inflation, and energy costs through the roof. 

Furthermore, what if I told you in that moment that you’d also be told that you would own nothing and be happy for the rest of your life with the possibility of being reduced to renting a cubicle with the possibility of eating insect paste for your daily nutrition. If that’s not bad enough you’d also be stripped of any protections from this with the government outright violating your first and second amendment rights forcing you into this real life hell on earth. 

To make this even worse you would also witness family and friends not only willfully complying with this, but advocating for these insane authoritarian government mandates as well. 

Now if you’re intellectually honest you’d probably look at me and say that all sounds completely insane and nightmarish and you would be absolutely right, yet fast forward two years later to today and look at where we are now. 

So how did WE THE PEOPLE allow this to happen? How did we go from living our day to day lives with purpose and intention to all the sudden being thrown into the middle of a reality that resembles a Bond movie where the Bond villain manages to succeed. 

The reason this happened was because it was a coordinated effort on the part of the government politicians, the media, and the elites of major corporations in working to shift what’s known as the Overton Window of society.  

What’s the Overton Window? 

The Overton Window was named after an American policy analyst Joseph Overton. Mr. Overton stated that the viability of a certain political idea is determined by falling into the range, or window, of what he considers is politically acceptable based on the mood of society at the moment. If the idea is too extreme and falls outside the window then the idea will collapse, but if the idea is a move that only mandates a slight change then society will accept it and therefore the idea could be a success for the ruling class. 

So let’s go back to our little hypothetical situation with me warning you about the huge changes that would impact your life two years from the point I told you. Based on everything we know now all of it would be an overwhelming pill to swallow. 

This amount of news would be so insane to you that you would naturally label it as such. However, if we take the leap forward back into the real world and observe how our reactions to the pandemic played out then as we look back it’s easy to see how much WE THE PEOPLE allowed the Overton Window to shift to the point of where we are now. It has basically been a fast paced process of giving up inch by inch by inch from two years ago till now.  

The frustrating thing about this is that it was all completely avoidable if we had just been principled in the REAL science of what we have known for decades regarding health and fitness, as well as, being principled in our stance on NOT violating our constitutional rights. 

Of course I realize that’s easier said than done. However if you are reading this article and you were one of the individuals standing in the breach and not giving in to societal pressures to get jabbed, tested, or locked down without full blown non-violent civil disobedience then I’m certainly not talking to you. 

However if you did give in, or you’re reading this and still giving in to the lies you’re being told then you need to absorb the reality of what I’ve outlined here as you ARE the reason the Overton Window continues to shift at a faster and faster pace. 

The Wrap Up

I wanted to frame today’s discussion and scenario using time travel to illustrate the level and fast pace at which we’ve allowed authoritarianism to take away from our lives. In framing it the way I did here my hopes are that you would more easily understand the importance of not giving in to government mandates.  

One of the things that drives me crazy and is one of my main pet-peeves are people not understanding the definition and application of precedent. Once you give up a right then those that forced you to give it up are never just going to stop at that point. Authoritarians ALWAYS demand, scheme, and work really hard to take more. 

A precedent is extremely important and can be applied both to achieve good and bad outcomes when it comes to your health, your rights, and society at large. 

So now that you understand how the Overton Window works I say WE THE PEOPLE start setting the precedent to bring back an optimal level of liberty and health to move our lives forward. 

If you agree then please make sure you share this article with your family and friends to support the cause.

Let’s make a fast paced shift of the Overton Window for great outcomes for our liberty and health.

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